Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
The If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series, or at least one or two.
I kind of can't believe I have an opinion about this, but the only two books in this series worth buying are the original If You Give A Mouse A Cookie and If You Give A Dog A Donut. The rest are rubbish.
What should I get to read???
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; the Montmaray novels by Michelle Cooper; Out Stealing Horses by Per Peddersen; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
If you want something genre, I recommend: Cloud Roads and its sequels by Martha Wells. Also Cold Magic and Cold Fire by Kate Elliott. And Inda and its sequels by Sherwood Smith, which have pirates and cavalry and bisexuality and longing and battles and women warriors.
The rest are rubbish.
What?! I cannot believe you are slandering If You Give A Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Pancake! Outrageous accusation.
Thanks, Consuela!! I read the first Montmaray book but not the sequels.
I read the first Montmaray book but not the sequels
I loved the first one but the third one is the most powerful.
I should see if the local children's bookstore had both sequels!
flea, you might add some of James Marshall's books, especially the George and Martha books. Also, there's just a huge wealth of fantastic picture books being published these days, so I hope you've got some room to add recent/new books and not just the classics.
The problem is almost all large picture books, and most books published in 2012-2013, are close to $20 from our vendor. So, budget-busters. Wah.
On the up side, the public library children's librarian has been very helpful about nonfiction.
flea, I may have missed it, but are you looking only for recently published?
The CA Young Readers Medal has good picture books, and pic books for older readers. If you go back a few years then you'd be able to get the picture books in paper. Also they have both nominees and finalists, so the lists can be lengthy -- good up for middle fiction too, which is 3rd appropriate.